Lundar's Library

Day 36, Year 538 of the Ascendancy

The 132nd Chaos Storm has swept by the lands, and
I am happy to report that many new things have come of it. There is now
a shop that sells skin dyes in town, and the museum now features the
top three prize winning pieces of the Puddleby Clan Council sponsered
art contest. Most importantly, however, the T’rool mines have been
expanded. I had already predicted that something like this would
happen, based on the turn of recent events, so as soon as the Chaos
Storm had passed, I found myself dashing to the T’rool mines.

Upon reaching the eastern mines, I was pleasantly
surprised that my predictions had come true; the mines had been
expanded upon greatly. Of course, I soon found myself hopelessly lost
within the mines, and then felled by marauding bats and T’rool Kin.
Luckily for me, the lovely healer Thuja was nearby, and she swiftly and
skillfully put me back on my feet. Afterwards, I took to exploring the
vast mines with a small group of exiles. I cannot put down in words all
that we found within the mines today, for the mines are quite large,
and extensive. They remind me somewhat of the new Hive in the Myrm
Higlands. Let us just say that these new mines are quite massive.

After the exploration of the T’rool mines I was
quite tired, and retired to town. After several uneventful hours, I
heard a sudden cry for help over the sunstone. It seemed that exiles
were falling left and right in Alchemist’s Folly, the strange tunnel
within the Dark Cavern. I heard of a rescue party being assembled
before the Dark Cavern, and I rushed there to check out this place
which I had heard of before, but had not yet been to. The party was
quickly assembled, and led by the pathfinder Korinthia, we plunged into
the Dark Cavern. I was quickly disarmed by the overwhelming darkness of
the Cavern, but I managed to navigate the burrow by following the
voices of my companions. This went on for quite a time, and for several
tense minutes, I thought that our party was lost. Then, suddenly, with
a burst of light, I found myself within a narrow tunnel.

This sketch does not begin to tell how dangerous
Alchemist’s Folly is. Sure, there are only a few corpse warriors and
detatched spirits present, but the narrow passage way allows for little
movement. And then there’s the boulders. Small boulders continuously
fly at exiles, from the north, and dodging the boulders within the
tight space of the tunnel becomes near impossible. The party that I was
with was struck down one by one, and soon the entire rescue party lay
strewn about the floor. Only Su’ub III, who escaped using his Purgatory
Pendant, made it out alive. The rest of us were forced to depart.(Check
out this Vision Stone of our futile efforts)

Now, one might think one such experience a day
would enough for any exile, but not for us. As soon as we returned to
town, we were reforming again, and another party was sent to
Alchemist’s Folly. This time, we sent in only a few of the most
powerful exiles, therby giving them room to maneuver. Soon, the
passageway had been mostly cleared of undine, and the rest of us
entered the tunnel. Dodging rocks became quite easy without the undine
to bar our way. The party made it’s way slowly westward, and soon
exiles were slipping onto the caverns beyond the tunnel. However,
several exiles at the tail end of the procession (including myself),
reached the westend to find ourselves trapped. The path that the
pathfinder had showed the rest of the group, was to us, invisible. A
back spawn of undine, and the continuously flying boulders sealed our
fate.

That was the end of our adventures, but for
those who made it past, it was another story. They later told me of a
strange cavern they had found themselves in, almost over-flowing with
undine. Within this great cave, they also claim to have spotted a
strange woman, dressed completely in red. This so called “Woman in Red”
seemed to remind them of the witch-priestess Lilit, for the undine she
summoned did not even dare to attack her. Was she some kind of Darshak
Priestess, or was she something else entirely? Only time will tell…